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'Settler representations of Indigenous culture and identity weigh heavily on the way Indigenous people tell their stories in the present. These representations affect the way Indigenous writers themselves operate to represent themselves and their people. The rendering visible of Indigenous culture involves a fraught history riven with appropriation, misrepresentation and material and discursive forms of violence.
'The Distribution of Settlement tells a partial story about the effect of these histories within Australian literature and culture. Tracking such cases of appropriation and misrepresentation in white Australian writing from the middle of the twentieth century, the book also turns to the legacy of these acts on and in contemporary Aboriginal writers as diverse as Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Tony Birch and Tara June Winch.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Contents :
Introduction: Refusing Settler Artifacts 1
Part One 29
Appropriation 31
Bastardy 64
Mumae’s Gaze 89
Part Two 129
The White Gaze and its Artifacts 131
Part Three 165
Opacity and Refusal 167
Refusing Capricornia 186
Need I Repeat? 207
Conclusion 226
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Works about this Work
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Cathy Perkins. The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 1 2020;
— Review of The Distribution of Settlement : Appropriation and Refusal in Australian Literature and Culture 2018 multi chapter work criticism 'Once a week for two years, I caught the bus from West End to Teneriffe in Brisbane for French classes, stepping off at Skyring Terrace near the new Gasworks Plaza. I was terrible at French and never did my homework, but I persisted out of a lifelong dream of writing in Paris. When I picked up Cathy Perkins’s The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, I realised that I was walking a street with a literary connection: Skyring was the surname of writer Zora Cross’s grandfather.' (Introduction)
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Cathy Perkins. The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 1 2020;
— Review of The Distribution of Settlement : Appropriation and Refusal in Australian Literature and Culture 2018 multi chapter work criticism 'Once a week for two years, I caught the bus from West End to Teneriffe in Brisbane for French classes, stepping off at Skyring Terrace near the new Gasworks Plaza. I was terrible at French and never did my homework, but I persisted out of a lifelong dream of writing in Paris. When I picked up Cathy Perkins’s The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, I realised that I was walking a street with a literary connection: Skyring was the surname of writer Zora Cross’s grandfather.' (Introduction)